Monday, October 22, 2012

Come Unto Me, Billy Bragg

YOU HAVE been watching Q&A and thinking that Billy Bragg, friend of the common man, is a goose who makes a good living out of it and that is probably all anyone needs to know about the man. Well it turns out there is a hidden side: Billy Bragg, Object of Fevered Female Imagination.

Who would have guessed the man's smile can lift nymphettes to the heights of romantic fantasy, although Dreamy Billy's anti-capital message does seem to get lost amidst the fluttering of hearts. "She was the first prize winner in the Billy Bragg Sony/Discover Card
folk music tour contest," writes one besotted bobby-soxer. "Two backstage passes and all expense paid round
trip tickets on Delta to Las Vegas for the opening night of the Billy
Bragg Sony/Discover Card folk music tour."

What went on Las Vegas will stay in Vegas because the site won't countenance the steamy stuff.

Please don't send me any stories that are
stronger than a "PG" rating. I've received two stories that are just too
sexual for this site. I don't enjoy them, and I don't think that our
readers want them, either! And Billy's a gentleman-- he would never do
that!

Contributors are advised that stories about sawn-off Poms offering advice before their bags have left the carousel might still be accepted.

Julia is currently working on a biography of Queen Victoria, a powerful female figure who reigned for 64 years.She was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from
20 June 1837, and Empress of India from 1 January 1877 until her death.
Her reign lasted longer than that of any other British monarch. The
reign of Victoria was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire.
The Victorian Era was at the height of the Industrial Revolution, a
period of significant social, economic, and technological change in the
United Kingdom.

And 'Billy's a gentleman'. But of course. In the mind's eye, little girls do mould men nearer to the heart's desire, Prof. It starts young. Is that a normal girlhood, though, to have such boring, drippy fantasies? Mine were never like that. Perhaps they came from a darker and more windswept place.

I didn't see Billy Bragg on Q and A, and while I agree that he is politically and economically mis/uninformed, I do enjoy his line in plaintive songs of unrequited love, and will be contributing to the Bragg coffers to see him perform in Sydney.

Don't watch Q&A Prof.Too much trouble.By the time I put some masking tape across the bottom of the screen to blank out the banal twatter comments, then tape up the rest of the screen so I don't have to watch rabid lefties in furious agreement with each other hat Tony is the problem, and press the mute button so I don't have to listen to same .....

Yes it had the ring to it of someone's Grade 6 homework assignment, in particular the helpful bit letting us know about the Industrial Revolution "a period of significant social, economic, and technological change in the United Kingdom."

Doesn't bode well for the rest of it, but, of course, any criticism of the book could only be coming from haters and would hardly need addressing. mr.simmon

Peter Garrett's "indigeneity" seems OK- it refers to indigenice people. But his "artesian fisherman" of Africa (ABCTV Four Corners) is a bit harder to understand. Do those Africans catch fish underground, or do they handcraft their own fish?

Hey, Perfessor, you and the sweeties at the ABC missed the twitter about 2/3 into Q&A. I can't recall the twitter, but it was sent by "suck_mike_hunt". Now, that's an oldie from dirty conversations! But the darlins' missed it. Shoulda got Whining Jon Faine onto it!